The Production of Pastoral Space: Modeling Spatial Occupation of Grazing Land for Environmental Impact Assessment Using Structural Equation Modeling

Environmental impact assessment (EIA) is a key tool for both environmental and land management. It identifies potential adverse unintended consequences of the projects on use environment derives possible mitigation measures to address these impacts. Calculating volume severity impacts complex often relies selections simplifications. Moreover, calculating associated with nomadic-pastoral (dynamic) still an unresolved methodological problem. A full understanding patterns dynamic in nomadic pastoralism lacking. Consequently, EIAs are currently able predict negative insufficiently. This article addresses this lacuna by modeling spatial occupation grazing using statistical technique structural equation (SEM) R package lavaan SEM, order explain behavior EIA. Based concepts production space pastoral spatiality, we specified tested model areas hypothesizing interrelationships between factors influencing empirical data from two different ecological zones Mongolia. The findings suggest that areas, herd mobility, size composition have direct positive effects each other. Compared broad-scale movements, significantly affect extent fine-scale herding mobility. Herders occupy more increase their daily movements at campsites when population livestock increases. By contrast, do not considerably herders’ decision migrate extensive seasonal campsites. Likewise, scale mobility relatively independent mobility; however, they covary. first study analyze quantify same study. EIA prediction should consider as influenced orbits, fine including otor, species, number animals well households